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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’

Max Planck

The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
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Culture Goal People Place Respect Time
In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
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Energy Intelligence Research Science Spirit
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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Creativity Death Important Innovation Rival Science Win
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Fragment Nature Vast World
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Limitation Possible Prediction
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Death Generation Light Science Success Truth
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Face Knowledge Live Mystery Ourselves
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Experiment Measurement Nature Question Record Science
Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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Constitution Goal Human Intelligence Light Possible Quick
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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Conscience High Law Science
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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Beyond Position Space
Insight must precede application.
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Action Application Knowledge One Liner Wisdom
A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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Difficult Discover Truth
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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Conscious Existence Fundamental Myself Regard Spiritual Talk
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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Condition Ideas Imagination Man New Occasion

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’

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